Method Of Notifying A Party Of An Emergency
AssigneeAT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.via transfer from BellSouth Intellectual Property Corporation
InventorSunil H. Contractor
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Abstract
An emergency notification system. The system includes a first server for receiving a communication from a telecommunications network and for transmitting a message to a subscriber of the notification system. The system also includes a second server in communication with the first server, the second server for supplying the first server with information associated with a subscriber.
Claims20
A computer program product for an emergency notification system, the computer program product comprising:
- a storage medium readable by a processing circuit and storing instructions for execution by the processing circuit for facilitating a method at a message server, comprising:
- receiving from a database server identification information generated in response to an emergency communication;
- the message server transmitting the identification information to a web server,
- the message server receiving a reply from the web server indicating if a user placing the emergency communication is a subscriber to an emergency notification service;
- and
- if the user is a subscriber to the emergency notification service, the message server receiving provisioned subscriber information from the web server and transmitting a notification that the emergency communication was placed from a telecommunication device to provisioned recipients;
- wherein the identification information includes a telephone number associated with the telecommunication device and a time the emergency communication was placed.
The computer program product of claim 10, wherein placing the telephone call includes placing a plurality of telephone calls.
A method for providing emergency notifications, the method comprising:
- receiving from a database server identification information generated in response to an emergency communication;
- at a message server transmitting the identification information to a web server,
- at the message server receiving a reply from the web server indicating if a user placing the emergency communication is a subscriber to an emergency notification service;
- and
- if the user is a subscriber to the emergency notification service, the message server receiving provisioned subscriber information from the web server and transmitting a notification that the emergency communication was placed from a telecommunication device to provisioned recipients;
- wherein the identification information includes a telephone number associated with the telecommunication device and a time the emergency communication was placed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.